Hughes was a professor in the 1890s, a staunch supporter of Britain's New Liberalism, an important leader of the progressive movement of the 20th century, a leading diplomat and New York lawyer in the days of Harding and Coolidge, and was known for being a swing voter when dealing with cases related to the New Deal in the 1930s.

In addition, the organization's affiliated foundation ( People For the American Way Foundation ) runs programs designed for voter education and politically progressive infrastructure building.

Since 2005, Ickes has been associated with a progressive data collection and voter file organization called " Catalist " ( formerly " Data Warehouse ").

America Votes leads national and state-based coalitions to develop shared strategies that advance progressive policies, engage communities and increase voter turnout.

The PFAW Foundation runs programs designed for voter education and progressive infrastructure building.

* Election law reform: Promote political justice, Enhance voter access, Full Public Financing of elections, Same day registration, Independent, non-partisan election commission, Free airtime and access to debates * Accurate and verifiable voter rolls, Instant runoff voting and other progressive voting systems

No one has sponsored more progressive and important legislation than has Sam Rayburn.

The modern world has been marked by progressive disaffection with claims to divine sanction for the state, whatever its political form.

The increasing intellectualization of consciousness, initially a progressive direction of evolution, has led to an excessive reliance on abstraction and a loss of contact with both natural and spiritual realities.

Thanks to a large amount of copper resources, progressive legislation and a healthy investment environment, Chile has become the copper mining capital of the world, producing over 1 / 3 of the global copper output.

It has been suggested that Clement's progressive views on gender as set out in the Paedagogus were influenced by Gnosticism.

This characterization has been challenged by other critics who claim either that it is an anachronistic use of the word, or that her beliefs were not progressive enough to merit such a designation.

The authors concluded that " the risk-AIDS hypothesis ... is clearly rejected by our data ", and that "... The evidence supports the hypothesis that HIV-1 has an integral role in the CD4 depletion and progressive immune dysfunction that characterise AIDS.

Classical double bass has a history of pedagogy dating back several centuries, including teaching manuals, studies, and progressive exercises that help students to develop the endurance and accuracy of the left hand, and control for the bowing hand.

The alliance has generally limited its membership to progressive parties, and therefore, not all European regionalist parties are members of EFA.

More recently Alfie Kohn has been an outspoken critic of the No Child Left Behind Act and a passionate defender of the progressive tradition.

The charter school movement has also spawned an increase in progressive programs.

Most recently, public outcry against No Child Left Behind testing and teaching to the test has brought progressive education again into the limelight.

From the 1990s to the present day, there has been a progressive movement from traditional film opticals to an integrated digital film environment, with special effects, cutting, colour grading, and other post-production tasks all sharing the same all-digital infrastructure.

For example, the K ' iche ' language spoken in Guatemala has the inflectional prefixes k-and x-to mark incompletive and completive aspect ; Mandarin Chinese has the aspect markers-le 了 ,-zhe 着, zài-在, and-guò 过 to mark the perfective, durative stative, durative progressive, and experiential aspects, and also marks aspect with adverbs ; and English marks the continuous aspect with the verb to be coupled with present participle and the perfect with the verb to have coupled with past participle.

One cannot say of someone now deceased that he " has eaten " or " has been eating "; the present auxiliary implies that he is in some way present ( alive ), even if the action denoted is completed ( perfect ) or partially completed ( progressive perfect ).

Due in part to the progressive attitudes of many of its residents, the Village has traditionally been a focal point of new movements and ideas, whether political, artistic, or cultural.

Impressionism has also influenced at least some of the music of Manuel de Falla, Paul Dukas, Jean Sibelius, George Butterworth, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, John Ireland, Cyril Scott, Zoltán Kodály, Ottorino Respighi, Jacques Ibert, Bohuslav Martinu, Olivier Messiaen, Alan Hovhaness, Ned Rorem, György Ligeti, Selim Palmgren, and Toru Takemitsu, among others, as well as jazz musicians such as Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington, Claude Thornhill, Bud Powell, Dave Brubeck, Gil Evans, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Frank Kimbrough, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Shirley Horn and Esperanza Spalding, progressive rock musicians such as King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, and Yes, the entire genre of post-rock, and electronic artists like Tangerine Dream and Popol Vuh, as well as Aphex Twin and Autechre.

It has no beginning or end, but time is cyclical with progressive and regressive spirituality phases.

One British folk / rock band ( 1969 – 2003 ), Lindisfarne, was even named after the island, while a Celtic Christian progressive rock band named after another island, Iona, has a song devoted to Lindisfarne on its album Journey into the Morn ( 1995 ).

MIT's School of Architecture, now the School of Architecture and Planning, was the first in the United States, and it has a history of commissioning progressive buildings.

The death of God, in particular the statement that " we killed him ", is similar to the self-dissolution of Christian doctrine: due to the advances of the sciences, which for Nietzsche show that man is the product of evolution, that earth has no special place among the stars and that history is not progressive, the Christian notion of God can no longer serve as a basis for a morality.

The moral and civil values that Goldoni promotes in his plays are those of rationality, civility, humanism, the importance of the rising middle-class, a progressive stance to state affairs, honor and honesty.

Among several others, they highlight the fact that maintaining a judicial system, a fundamental requirement of the civil right to due process before the law and other rights relating to judicial process, is positive, resource-intensive, progressive and vague, while the social right to housing is precise, justiciable and can be a real ' legal ' right.

While Rousseau's notion of the progressive moral degeneration of mankind from the moment civil society established itself diverges markedly from Spinoza's claim that human nature is always and everywhere the same ... for both philosophers the pristine equality of the state of nature is our ultimate goal and criterion ... in shaping the " common good ", volonté générale, or Spinoza's mens una, which alone can ensure stability and political salvation.

Though the progressive Christianisation of the Roman Empire in the 4th century did not confer upon bishops civil authority within the state, the gradual withdrawal of imperial authority during the 5th century left the pope the senior imperial civilian official in Rome, as bishops were increasingly directing civil affairs in other cities of the Western Empire.

In contemporary reports, Truth was warmly received by the convention-goers, the majority of whom were long-standing abolitionists, friendly to progressive ideas of race and civil rights.

The change from a progressive local taxation based on property values to a single-rate form of taxation regardless of ability to pay ( the Community Charge, but more popularly referred to as the Poll Tax ), led to widespread refusal to pay and to incidents of civil unrest, known colloquially as the ' Poll Tax Riots '.

After the war, Yoneda continued to support progressive causes and civil and human rights issues.

In the 19th century, the bourgeoisie propounded liberalism, and gained political rights, religious rights, and civil liberties for themselves and the lower social classes ; thus was the bourgeoisie then a progressive philosophic and political force in modern Western societies.

Since its inception in 1994, the UW had to cope with internal frictions between various factions: liberal socialists ( such as Leszek Balcerowicz ), those proposing a more liberal economic agenda in a more conservative, bourgeois guise ( such as Donald Tusk ), more progressive social democrats such as Jacek Kuroń, and intellectual former civil rights activists such as Bronisław Geremek or Tadeusz Mazowiecki, who also has a strong background in liberal Catholicism and leans towards Christian democracy.

Despite progressive agricultural reforms, under the Derg, agricultural output suffered due to civil war, drought and misguided economic policies.

Brewster promised to end patronage in the civil service, end political machines, improve workman's compensation and labor laws, bring in votes for women, and other progressive reforms.

Jewish Americans were not just involved in nearly every important social movement but in the forefront of promoting such issues as workers rights, civil rights, woman's rights, freedom of religion, peace movements, and various other progressive causes.

ANSWER characterizes itself as anti-imperialist, and its steering committee consists of socialists, civil rights advocates, and left-wing or progressive organizations from the Muslim, Arab, Palestinian, Filipino, Haitian, and Latin American communities.

Generally speaking, the UPCUSA ( especially its leadership ) was a strong supporter of progressive causes, such as civil rights and feminism.

Similarly, the social policies ranged from the conservatism of the likes of Christine Boutin, famously opposed to civil unions for homosexuals, to more socially progressive policies.

Third-generation human rights are those rights that go beyond the mere civil and social, as expressed in many progressive documents of international law, including the 1972 Stockholm Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, the 1992 Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, and other pieces of generally aspirational " soft law.

He authored more than 300 opinions, and Chief Justice Warren Burger said " he wrote with clarity and firmness ...." Reed was an economic progressive, and generally supported racial desegregation, civil liberties, trade union rights and economic regulation.

But some media reports indicated that his appointment would have been opposed by civil rights activists, who felt Reed was not sufficiently progressive.

Along with Bayard Rustin, a civil rights leader and close confidante of Martin Luther King, Jr., Barbara Jordan is remembered for her advocacy of progressive politics.

" Even within Russia, Hobsbawm doubts the ostensibly " progressive " effects of the revolution: " What remained revolution and civil war was a Russia even more firmly anchored in the past ... hat actually governed the country was an undergrowth of smaller and larger bureaucracy, on average even less educated and qualified than before.

A lifelong Democrat, he was noted for his progressive leadership in civil rights and education ; although his opponents criticized him as a " tax-and-spend " liberal, Sanford is remembered as a major public figure of the South after World War II.

She was regarded as a moderate and progressive within her party and was outspoken in favor of civil rights and the women's movement.

Iceland also has a highly progressive gay rights legislation, with couples having been able to register civil unions since 1996, adopt since 2006 and marry since 2010.